The morning sun is not so dazzling to the eyes. The sun in the Northern Hemisphere will never be so blazing.

The city was in a state of silence and peace, with people waking up early, taking to the streets, talking about the weather today and the recent war.

A man walks down a street that is not crowded with his handbag. A colleague dropped by with him, and soon the two of them converged and walked side by side.

"Hey, did you hear that? Last night, quite a few soldiers were taken away to dig field fortifications outside the city. The colleague was mysterious, talking about the news he had just heard.

The state has conscripted another 20,000 school-age youths into the army, and this matter has been troublesome overnight, and of course everyone knows about it.

What is depressing is that the Germans have already hit the doorstep, but they can only hear the words of defeat from the mouths of some people.

Many people just know that the front line was defeated and lost a lot of soldiers, but the specific situation is not clear to everyone.

"The age of the two of us is also dangerous, and according to the officer downstairs, the age has been set at 55 years old." Seeing that the worker next to him didn't speak, this colleague continued to talk about lace news.

"Look over there......" The man stopped and pointed to the street in the distance, where the two men froze.

In the distance was a group of soldiers in tattered clothes, and it was clear from the situation that they had retreated from the front line.

Normally, such soldiers are not allowed to enter the city and affect the hearts of the people, but now they are really appearing.

The only explanation for this is that the commanders above are too busy to care about the whereabouts of these soldiers, and they have more headaches to deal with.

What could be more desperate? It is nothing more than that the Germans are already very close to the city......

"I think soon we won't have any work to do...... The Germans are very close to here......" the man sighed, and walked on.

His colleague was even behind, a little bewildered, and asked, "My God, do you mean that the Germans have already hit the doorstep?" ”

For those who lived in the city of Leningrad, the Germans had indeed reached their doorstep, and the German Army Group North, unconsciously, had almost gone hand in hand with its own Army Group Center.

"If the Germans do call, maybe we should leave......" The somewhat panicked colleague seemed to have thought of a solution to the problem.

"It's late! Stalin gave the order...... No one can retreat, including the elderly and children. The man said in a depressed voice, and then their conversation was interrupted.

Yes, interrupted, in the far direction, there was a sudden deafening explosion, and black smoke immediately billowed and rose, and it was clear from afar.

"Enemy bombardment?" The man, who didn't know what was happening, looked at the explosion in the distance and asked in his heart.

However, he did not hear the sound of air raid sirens, which meant that no one saw the enemy plane.

But that sudden explosion should not be an accident. After all, the sound was too loud to look like it had been accidental.

Sure enough, before everyone realized the crux of the matter, the second explosion followed.

"Boom!" It's still so deafening, it's still so devastating. There seemed to be a tremor coming from beneath my feet, and I could faintly hear the sound of the building collapsing.

"Hell! The Germans are shelling? "No matter how stupid people are, they will realize the seriousness of the problem when they hear two explosions, but they don't hear the sound of air raid sirens.

The soldiers who had gathered in ragged clothes in the streets, when they heard the explosion, quickly all fell to the ground.

They were all too familiar with the sound of explosions, the Germans were more powerful than them, and the deafening sound of the cannons made them constantly retreat and flee.

"What kind of artillery can produce such a devastating explosion?" The man bent down and tilted his head sideways to see the explosion in the distance.

A moment later, he heard something whizzing overhead, sharp enough to make his ears ring.

The huge cannonball tore through the air and crashed into the distant building, shattering a corner of the building before rushing to the next block.

Then, right there, a violent explosion suddenly knocked everyone who was still standing on the ground to their feet.

The violent explosion caused everyone to lose their sense of hearing, and the shock wave shattered the glass of the surrounding buildings. The building at the center of the explosion is long gone.

The man staggered to his feet, struggling to dodge farther away. He saw his colleague shouting at him, but he couldn't hear anything.

With a ringing in his ears, he gestured to his colleague to leave quickly, and then took his handbag and ran in the direction of home.

In his heart, what he was thinking at this time was to quickly let his wife and children leave the residence and go to the bomb shelter to take refuge.

Living at home at this time is too dangerous an option, because once such an explosion starts, there is no possibility of an end.

"Boom!" A fourth explosion was heard, then the fifth and sixth, and it was not until the eighth that it stopped.

This is not a new German weapon, nor is it a high-end commodity like a rocket.

At this moment, off the coast of the Gulf of Finland, the battleship Warrior, which originally belonged to the British Navy and now belongs to the German fleet, has eight huge main gun barrels, and is slightly smoking.

The 381 mm caliber Mark 1 42 times caliber main gun is not easily comparable to the fire of any army artillery.

And the age of the production of this artillery is very old, and it is definitely not a new weapon.

Because it was fired at the longest distance, the shells had to fly about 25 kilometers, and the people who fired were all German naval cadets, so there was no accuracy.

However, as the main gun of a naval battleship, it was completely sufficient to attack such a huge target as a city.

Right next to the battleship Warrior, the eight 381 mm guns of the battleship Weariness erupted with dazzling light again.

After a loud roar, the water next to the battleship was blown ripples, and around the battleship, more than ten destroyers, were patrolling, not giving the enemy any chance to approach.

Germany's newly established Baltic Fleet, which was a training force, began to train its new crews in actual combat.